My Summer Reading

[Equality72521]

For school we have to read all Truman Capote. We have to read In Cold Blood, The Grass Harp, and "A Lamp in the Window." Are any of these good? I understand that a lot of Truman Capote is good, but that just came from my teacher. Please, if anybody has any comments that might help me to understand the book better or even a short summary would be nice. Just let me know, thanks.

[papayahed]

For school we have to read all Truman Capote. We have to read In Cold Blood, The Grass Harp, and "A Lamp in the Window." Are any of these good? I understand that a lot of Truman Capote is good, but that just came from my teacher. Please, if anybody has any comments that might help me to understand the book better or even a short summary would be nice. Just let me know, thanks.

I've read In Cold Blood and The Grass Harp and I thought they were pretty good.

In Cold Blood is said to be the first non fiction novel. Perhaps not now but it was very salacious when it was originally published. Truman Capote spent 6 years researching the novel and spent a lot of time with the murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickok. The two were portrayed not as monsters but as damaged human beings that had families and lives.

[Zeruiah]

For school we have to read all Truman Capote. We have to read In Cold Blood, The Grass Harp, and "A Lamp in the Window." Are any of these good? I understand that a lot of Truman Capote is good, but that just came from my teacher. Please, if anybody has any comments that might help me to understand the book better or even a short summary would be nice. Just let me know, thanks.

I personally hated In Cold Blood, but you may like it, many people do. It's definitely worth the attempt, though don't come into it with any expectations to fill.

I haven't read The Grass Harp yet, so I am of no help to you.